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Studies suggest physically demanding work is a risk factor for coronary heart disease

News Medical: April 18, 2013

Two studies presented at this year’s EuroPRevent 2013 congress suggest that demanding physical work has a detrimental effect on an individual’s risk of coronary heart disease.

The first was a case-control study described by Dr Demosthenes Panagiotakos, Associate Professor of Biostatistics-Epidemiology at Harokopio University, Athens, which evaluated occupation in 250 consecutive patients with a first stroke, 250 with a first acute coronary event and 500 equally matched controls.(1) Overall, when assessed on a 9-unit scale (1 = physically demanding work and 9 = sedentary/mental work) the analysis showed that those suffering the stroke and coronary events were more commonly engaged in physically demanding occupation than the controls. Read more